"Portraits: The Photography Of Carl Van Vechten" 1978 MAURIBER, Saul [compiled by] Ex Libris Andy Warhol

MAURIBER, Saul [compiled by]

The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.

1978

First Printing

12 1/4" x 9 3/8"

Ex-Libris Andy Warhol bookplate

Fine/ Fine

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One hundred and sixty-three portraits, taken during the 1930s-1950s and including Dizzy Gillespie, Orson Welles, Frances Steloff, Berenice Abbott, James Baldwin, Joan Miro, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Ravi Shankar

Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. He gained fame as a writer, and notoriety as well, for his 1926 novel Nigger Heaven. In his later years, he took up photography and took many portraits of notable people. Although he was married to women for most of his adult years, Van Vechten engaged in numerous homosexual affairs over his lifetime.